DaJuan Summers scored 18 points and No. 8 Georgetown won the first of many matchups between ranked Big East teams this season, beating No. 2 Connecticut 74-63 on Monday night for its seventh straight win.

A.J. Price scored a season-high 24 points including the three-pointer that sent the game into overtime and Jerome Dyson scored five of his 21 points in the extra period to rally No. 2 Connecticut to a wild, 88-83 victory over eighth-ranked Gonzaga on Saturday.

The Big East Conference already has put a stamp on the 2008-09 men's college basketball campaign, and it's only the preseason. The 16-team league has seven teams ranked in the USA TODAY/ESPN Top 25 preseason coaches' poll slightly more than a quarter of the rankings.

After failing to make the postseason in 2007 and losing in the first round of the NCAA tournament last season after point guard A.J. Price went down with a knee injury, UConn is expecting to return to its place among the nation's elite this season.